Gloria Estefan remembered learning how to walk again after being paralyzed following 1990 tour bus crash, which changed the course of her life forever.
Nearly 35 years ago, Gloria Estefan was almost killed during a freak accident when a semi truck crashed into her tour bus in Pennsylvania. The Grammy Award-winning artist, who was 32 years old at the time, was thrown to the floor of the bus and left temporarily paralyzed with a broken back. Estefan was warned she may never be able to walk again, but with doctors' help and her own determination, the 'Conga' singer returned to the stage almost one year later.
Estefan remembered being told how severe her injuries were following the 1990 crash. 'They always have to give you the worst case scenario, and I was paralyzed from that accident,' she said on CBS Mornings. 'I was put back together here in New York at the hospital for joint diseases.' LIKE WHAT YOU’RE READING?
Estefan said her father had been in a wheelchair, so she understood what 'the families go through.' Being in a wheelchair, though, was one of her biggest fears. 'They always have to give you the worst case scenario, and I was paralyzed from that accident.' 'We put an elevator in our house, because one day, I felt I was going to need it… and thank God that I did, because I used it for a long time,' she said.
believe there will, you have to. Look at how many things have been cured,' she said. 'I know when I was a child, if they told you the ‘C’ word — cancer — that was the end, and now there are so many cancer treatments. 'We put an elevator in our house, because one day, I felt I was going to need it … and thank God that I did, because I used it for a long time.
Six months after the accident, I was able to put my underwear on myself. I wanted to throw a party,' Estefan said. 'And then, that's when I started even thinking about getting back on stage, and to show people, ‘Hey, you can go through difficult things depending on how you deal with it.’ But, I was back on stage 20 days shy of a year. It took three years to really feel my best.'
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